Bozhena

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɔʒɛnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bozhena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 33Kas Божена(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
  • CZCzechia1 in 134as Božena

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bozhena itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

194,754 named Bożena, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BozhenaLatin(measured from records)
БоженаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Божена in UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and Bozena in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bozhena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bozhena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—194,754as Bożena1 in 197195KBozhena8
CZ Czechia—79,702as Božena1 in 13480K——
HR Croatia—4,700as Božena1 in 9004.7K——
US United States—2,859as Bozena1 in 116K2.9KBozena15
UA Ukraine#433≈1,300 est.≈1 in 33KlistedБожена36
BY Belarus#218≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.6K—Божена19
SI Slovenia—560as Božena1 in 3.8K560——
IS Iceland—59as Bozena1 in 5.9K59——
EE Estonia—≈3 est.≈1 in 352K6—1

194,754 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling bożena. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bozhena is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian

    Also written Божена, Božena

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Boz︠h︡ena

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bozhena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, derived from the Czech name Bozena.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

800100012001400160018002000Božena, b. 950Božena Němcová, b. 1820Božena Viková-Kunětická, b. 1862Timrava, b. 1867Božena Benešová, b. 1873Božena Laglerová, b. 1886Božena Vavrečková, b. 1913Božena Dobešová, b. 1914Božena Šustrová, b. 1915Božena Srncová, b. 1925
  • Boženab. 950not in their usual nameCzech princess
  • Božena Němcováb. 1820ATnot in their usual nameCzech writer (1820-1862)
  • Božena Viková-Kunětickáb. 1862CZnot in their usual nameCzech member of Czech council, politician, feminist, writer and playwright (1862–1934)
  • Timravab. 1867SKnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak playwright and prosaic (1867–1951)
  • Božena Benešováb. 1873CZnot in their usual nameCzech poet, literature reviewer, publicist, publicist and bookwriter (1873–1936)
  • Božena Laglerováb. 1886CZnot in their usual namepioneer aviator (1886–1941)
  • Božena Vavrečkováb. 1913CZnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak photographer (1913-1970)
  • Božena Dobešováb. 1914CZnot in their usual nameCzechoslovakian gymnast
  • Božena Šustrováb. 1915CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress
  • Božena Srncováb. 1925CZnot in their usual nameOlympic gymnast (1925-1997)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalПривіт, Bozhena!Hi Bozhena, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Bozhena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—658#583
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026658#583
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—5#3,538
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20235—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20244—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20252—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20222—
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261—
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Bozhena?
A machine transcription gives /bɔʒɛnə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
Is Bozhena a male or female name?
Bozhena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Bozhena?
In the etymology graph, Bożena and Božena are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bozhena have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 195 thousand people named Bożena, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Bozhena?
In Poland, the national register counted 194,754 people named Bożena in 2026, about 1 in 197 residents.
How common is Bozhena compared with other names?
In Belarus, Bozhena is the 218th most common given name of 7,499 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bozhena” — the 218th most common given name in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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